Sir David’s show is not the first and certainly (hopefully) won’t be the last to flop badly. Here are some others that in a perverse way, I enjoyed.

1. DAYBREAK

In hindsight spending £6m on Adrian Chiles really looks like madness. After all, the Six Million Dollar Man used to jump off trains and wrestle sharks…

2. LIVE FROM STUDIO 5

A nightly live topical news show presented by Ian Wright, Melinda Messenger, and Kate Walsh – the runner-up of The Apprentice. Made Nationwide look like the film Network.

3. ELDORADO

EastEnders on the Costa Del Sol… what could possibly go wrong ? Well, plenty. A soap that made Triangle look like The French Connection, the presence of subtitles when some characters spoke Spanish did little to make it in any way more comprehensible.

4. SHAFTED

Hilarious game show hosted by oily ex-MP Robert Kilroy Silk blessed with the catchphrase “they decide whether to SHARE. Or to SHAFT.”

5 MINDER

15 years after its demise, Channel 5 came up with the brilliant idea of casting Shane Richie as Arthur Daley in an updated version of Minder. If you can think of a worse idea, drop them a line…

6. DAVINA

Thinking that a vaguely popular TV personality has the journalistic skills required to conduct interesting and entertaining interviews is a frequent mistake in television. So it proved with Ms McCall’s awful BBC chat show. See also Fern, The Antony Cotton Show...

7. SAM’S GAME

Watching Davina guffawing and behaving like an idiot on Big Brother and Million Pound Drop was one thing. Watching her trying to act in this diabolically laboured sitcom – in dungarees – was even worse.

8. HORNE & CORDEN

On the back of Gavin & Stacey, Matthew Horne and James Corden were given their own disastrously unfunny sketch show. Corden himself recently admitted it was under-prepared and that basically he at least thought he could do no wrong. Which was wrong.

9. THE BIG TOP

Mind-blowingly awful sitcom in which Amanda Holden played the owner/ringmaster of a down-at-heel circus in North Staffordshire. Hey, it could happen..

10. AMANDA HOLDEN’S FANTASY LIVES

The celebrity reality show is of course a cursed genre all of its own as Cornwall With Caroline Quentin is currently demonstrating. Why anyone would want to watch Holden “train” to be a stunt woman is anyone’s guess. And in fact no-one really did.

11. BADDIEL & SKINNER UNPLANNED

This egotistically-bloated follow-up to Fantasy Football was built on the notion of David Baddiel and Frank Skinner just sitting on the sofa in front of a studio audience, improvising. Summed up by the moment when Skinner replied to a female heckler with the brilliantly witty retort: “slapper!” The low point of laddishness.

12. MAISIE RAINE

A popular actor cast as a maverick detective, what could possibly go wrong? The answer: Pauline Quirke as Maisie Raine, possibly the most miserable, improbable TV cop this side of Caroline Quentin. See also Jerome Flynn as Badger.

13. THE BIONIC WOMAN

As films like The Italian Job show, re-makes of old hit TV shows are invariably pointless and often disastrous. Hot from EastEnders, Michelle Ryan (Zoe Slater) must have thought her dreams had come true when she was cast as the new Lindsay Wagner. But the NBC re-make was a $50 million flop. See also: Charlie’s Angels, The Fugitive, too many others to mention.

14. RED OR BLACK

Simon Cowell was the Man Who Could Do No Wrong, the King of Primetime, before trying his hand at what sounded like a roulette-based game show. It turned out to involve people on building in hard hats watching David Hasselhoff do a bungee jump. In other words: torture.

15. HIGH STAKES

As if The Jeremy Kyle Show wasn’t vile enough, ITV decided to give the most charmless presenter on television his own game show, a mindless, convoluted mix of bingo and Deal Or No Deal that was like Red Or Black without Ant & Dec.

16.FAMOUS & FEARLESS

Over-blown, over-hyped vehicle designed to push Chris Evans back as a star of Channel 4. Liverpool’s vast Echo Arena was the location for such “famous” names as Sarah-Jayne Dunn larking about on a powered skateboard. Clare Balding didn’t even take her coat off. “Kelly Holmes can’t actually speak at the moment,” she revealed, in a moment worthy of Alan Partridge. “Can you give us a facial expression that shows us how you felt after that crash?”

18. LIFE’S TOO SHORT

Critically panned follow-up by Ricky Gervais to Extras and The Office, excruciatingly combining the two, only with the witty twist of midget Warwick Davis talking like Gervais. Horrendous.

19. THE BRITS

Quite why Television can’t cover Pop Music has remained one of its biggest mysteries. Certainly the spectre of giant musician Mick Fleetwood and tiny Page 3 girl Samantha Fox presenting The Brits is partly responsible. Last year’s ceremony saw the award for Best International Artist being presented by Boris Becker. Bewildering.

20. BRIGHTON BELLES

This UK version of the Golden Girls starred Wendy Craig, Sheila Hancock and Jean Boht but was pulled after six episodes into the 11-part series due to poor ratings.